Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the National Sunday School Union of Great Britain printed a Bible which gave what the Lord told Abraham but carefully omitted the aged man's merriment and doubt. Both old and New Testament had been carefully revised and expurgated of all things that might bring evil thoughts to the young...
Present Soviet Commissar for War is quiet, conscientious Klimentiy Voroshilov, "a man," according to famed Correspondent Alexander Nazarov, "whose modesty and lack of excessive talents have been definitely appreciated." Last week untalented Voroshilov went to Bobruisk on the Polish frontier. Snug-buttoned in his ankle-length army overcoat, he reviewed a cavalry division, congratulated Red Army Generals on the successful conclusion of their annual autumn maneuvers...
...historic "March on Rome." In return for his epaulets, Dictator Mussolini apparently expected General Rossi to bear in silence a large part of the responsibility for the Matteotti murder. But at a crucial moment Cesare Rossi refused to keep quiet under blame and figuratively cried "Murderer!" at the man who had made him. Followed jail, interminable proceedings, and a lucky escape in a small motorboat to Nice. Safe in France, General Rossi exclaimed "I would like to have Mussolini strung up higher than any yardarm pirate would string...
...years Dr. Hans Sattler, shell-shocked German-born Hungarian engineer has lived in a quiet Budapest suburb, trying to forget the War. Daytime it was easy, but at night he could not sleep. Recently Dr. Sattler's neighbors began to worry about the young man. They found that he left home every night, returned each morning with sleepless eyes, unshaven, his clothes muddy. Last week a local surgeon and several of Dr. Sattler's friends waited until the shell-shocked engineer left his home, followed him at a distance until he disappeared in a neighboring wood. Hours later...
Chagrined at Policeman Schober's cabinet was the Austrian Heimwehr. For months they have been holding Schober up as a model of the sort of man who ought to be Chancellor of Austria. Now Schober was Chancellor, and not only was there no member of the Heimwehr listed on his cabinet, but it was quickly evident he was strong enough to rule Austria himself, quite independent of Heimwehr dictatorship...